[reportlab-users] pyfribidi / fribidi versions

[Robin Becker]

On 24/10/2010 11:57, Hosam Aly wrote:

> Hello everybody,

>

> I successfully used Fribidi-0.19.1-2 with PyFribidi-0.10.0 on openSUSE 11.1 over Python 2.6.0, but I had to make some little changes to "pyfribidi.c" to make it work. I think there was a problem that was fixed in later versions of Python, so Python 2.6.4 or later should work. Let me check it again when I return home, and I'll update you with the latest status.

>

thanks;  we need to establish the correct start point for any further work. I 
have a build for win32 that seems to be pyfribidi2 based, but I see various 
assertions about the need for pyfribidi2 which appear to mean we should use 
pyfribidi going forwards etc etc.



>

> Thank you,

>

> Hosam Aly

> Software Engineer

> +20 (11) 8000-789

> http://www.linkedin.com/in/hosamaly

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> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 10:18 AM

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> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] pyfribidi / fribidi versions

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>    I am using fribidi 0.19.2 in conjuction with pyfribidi2 (0.8.0) and the rtl-support branch seems to be working. But unfortunately I can't provide any further insight regarding fribidi

>

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>> year it seemd we had to use fribidi2/pyfribidi2, but now the latest

>> versions of fribidi(0.19.2)/pyfribidi(0.10.0) seem to be compatible

>> and the test_pyfribidi.py seems to run to completion.

>>

>> However, the rtl-support branch imports from pyfribidi2.

>> Clarifications welcome.

>



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Robin Becker